The Pyramid Clubs mentioned had sprung to prominence the year this film was released, first in California and then across the nation. Club members joined for $1.00 with the promise of making $2000.00 in a relatively short time. The notion was the basis for what became Multi Level Marketing. The fad had a resurgence several times in the 20th century and has come to be referred to as a pyramid scheme.
The scandalous goings on at the Tennessee Children's Home Society would indeed make the headlines the following year, when a state investigation would bring to light Georgia Tann's illegal adoption racket. The investigation would lead to adoption reform laws.
In the background during the opening credits is a nighttime image of the tower of Los Angeles City Hall. The building, located in downtown at the edge of Little Tokyo, was completed in 1928 and has the distinction of being the tallest 'base-isolated' structure (referring to a form of seismic retrofit) in the world. It stands at 454 feet in height and has 32 floors.
Paula references her hometown as being Beaver Brook, PA, and Sitko indicates that he is from Ash Fork, KS. Beaver Brook is listed as a 'populated place' in Luzerne County, within the Township of Hazle, south of Wilkes-Barre, PA. Ash Fork doesn't exist as a listed place in Kansas; however, just south of Larned (northwest of Wichita) there are a number of crossings along the Santa Fe Trail traversing the Pawnee River, two of which are called the Ash Creek and Pawnee Fork Crossings, names which could have been combined to give Sitko a hometown.